Lot 1208
 
1917, 5¢ carmine error, imperf (485), single error in a block of nine, huge margins all around showing portions of 16 adjacent stamps, with deep rich color and full never hinged original gum. Fresh and choice, Extremely Fine.
Scott $32,500
A SUPERB EXAMPLE OF THIS TWENTIETH CENTURY RARITY.
Expertization: 1974 P.F. Certificate.
George Sloane reported, in a September, 1942 Sloane's Column, that 48 uncut sheets of 400 of the imperforate 2¢ type I, Scott #482, printed from plate number 7942 were sold to a single buyer by a large New York City branch post office. These are likely the only such sheets sold, though it is commonly believed that there were 50 sheets "issued" (according to Sloane several hundred more sheets were found in Chicago, but were returned to Washington for destruction). Each sheet would have contained a double error in the upper left pane and a single error in the lower right pane, meaning that only 48 blocks such as the one offered here were ever possible, and some of these have been cut up.
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